241 Hunter therefore ordered his columns to countermarch and proceeded to carry out the President's instructions promptly and exactly.
"The Struggle for Missouri"
John McElroy
It had neither come up to Napoleon to wipe out the Prussians at Ligny, nor come back in its countermarch in time to save Ney and drive back Wellington at Quatre Bras.
"Waterloo"
Hilaire Belloc
The first is the capital importance, disastrous to the French fortunes, of Erlon's having been kept out of both fights by his useless march and countermarch.
"Waterloo"
Hilaire Belloc